The Georgia state constitution /

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Author / Creator:Hill, Melvin B.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
©2011
Description:1 online resource (xxii, 288 pages)
Language:English
Series:The Oxford commentaries on the state constitutions of the United States
Oxford commentaries on the state constitutions of the United States.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11223240
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Other uniform titles:Georgia. Constitution (1982)
ISBN:9780199877911
0199877912
1306268028
9781306268028
9780199779000
0199779007
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index.
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Summary:In The Georgia State Constitution, Melvin Hill Jr. offers a detailed description of the creation and development of Georgia's constitution. He explains how political and cultural events, from colonial times, through the Civil War, to the present, have affected Georgia's constitutional law. Accompanying the full text of the constitution is Hill's rich commentary of the constitutional provisions. He traces their origins and interpretation by the courts and other governmental bodies. This volume also provides a bibliographical essay which features the most important sources of Georgia's constitut.
Other form:Print version: Hill, Melvin B. Georgia state constitution 9780199779000